# Almorterra

*| 4 Islands Survival World | 4k, -64 to +320 [Experimental] · 1.18, Download, Minecraft, Java & Bedrock*

4k, -64 to +320 [Experimental] (1.18, Download, Minecraft, Java & Bedrock)

## Details

- Creator: McMeddon
- Type: Civilization world
- Mode: Survival world
- World size: 4096 x 4096 blocks (4K)
- Elevation range: -64 to 320 blocks
- Spawn point: X 2048, Y 69, Z 2048
- Playable version: 1.18.1+
- Survival friendly: Yes. Confirmed by the scan: loot tables, structures, animals, ores present in the save. Plays in vanilla Minecraft with no mods or datapacks
- Editions: Java, Bedrock
- Made of: Grassland 42%, Mountain 23%, Cold 11%, Arid 9%, Forest 9%, Shore 5%, Wetland 1%, Mushroom 0.1%, Cave 0.1%
- Beyond the border: Vanilla chunks
- Published: 2022-04-24
- Inspection: incomplete. No structure has been located and pinned by hand yet.

## Biomes

Shares are measured across the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so biomes missing from this list can still be found out there.

20 biomes. Land 40%, Water 60%.

Made of: Grassland 42%, Mountain 23%, Cold 11%, Arid 9%, Forest 9%, Shore 5%, Wetland 1%, Mushroom 0.1%, Cave 0.1%.

### Land (40% of the map, 13 biomes)

- Plains: 42% of land
- Windswept Hills: 23% of land
- Snowy Plains: 11% of land
- Desert: 9% of land
- Beach: 5% of land
- Old Growth Pine Taiga: 3% of land
- Forest: 2% of land
- Birch Forest: 2% of land
- Jungle: 1% of land
- Swamp: 1% of land
- Dark Forest: 1% of land
- Taiga: 0.2% of land
- Mushroom Fields: 0.1% of land

### Water (60% of the map, 6 biomes)

- Deep Ocean: 52% of water
- Ocean: 21% of water
- River: 12% of water
- Warm Ocean: 12% of water
- Frozen Ocean: 2% of water
- Frozen River: 0.6% of water

## Structures

4 of 19 confirmed present. A pinned marker outranks the scan; anything not confirmed is what the scan alone recorded.

Counted inside the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so structures not confirmed here can still generate out there.

### Surface (0 of 7)

- Desert pyramids: Not checked
- Igloos: Not checked
- Jungle pyramids: Not checked
- Pillager outposts: Not checked
- Swamp huts: Not checked
- Trail ruins: Not checked
- Woodland mansions: Not checked

### Underground (4 of 6)

- Amethyst geodes: Included
- Ancient cities: Missing
- Dungeons / monster rooms: Included
- Mineshafts: Included
- Strongholds: Included
- Trial chambers: Missing

### Ocean (0 of 4)

- Buried treasure: Not checked
- Ocean monuments: Not checked
- Ocean ruins: Not checked
- Shipwrecks: Not checked

### Portal structures (0 of 1)

- Ruined portals: Not checked

### Settlements (0 of 1)

- Villages: Not checked

## Loot tables

21 of 37 confirmed present. Confirmed means the scan read the table out of the save. Not observed means the structure carrying it was not seen in this export, not that the table is impossible here.

Counted inside the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so tables not seen here can still turn up out there.

### Chest loot (10 of 20)

- Abandoned mineshaft: Included
- Buried treasure chest: Not observed
- Desert pyramid: Not observed
- End City treasure: Not observed
- Igloo chest: Not observed
- Jungle temple: Included
- Jungle temple dispenser: Included
- Nether fortress bridge: Not observed
- Pillager outpost: Not observed
- Shipwreck map: Included
- Shipwreck supply: Included
- Shipwreck treasure: Included
- Simple dungeon: Included
- Spawn bonus chest: Not observed
- Stronghold corridor: Included
- Stronghold crossing: Included
- Stronghold library: Included
- Underwater ruin (big): Not observed
- Underwater ruin (small): Not observed
- Woodland mansion: Not observed

### Village chest loot (11 of 15)

- Village armorer: Included
- Village butcher: Not observed
- Village cartographer: Included
- Village desert house: Included
- Village fisher: Included
- Village fletcher: Included
- Village mason: Not observed
- Village plains house: Included
- Village savanna house: Not observed
- Village snowy house: Not observed
- Village taiga house: Included
- Village tannery: Included
- Village temple: Included
- Village toolsmith: Included
- Village weaponsmith: Included

### Archaeology (0 of 1)

- Archaeology loot: Not observed

### Structure loot (0 of 1)

- Trial chamber loot: Not observed

## What is inside

- Biomes: yes
- Structures: yes
- Ores: yes
- Plants: yes
- Animals: yes
- Loot: yes
- Caves: yes

Outside the built map the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so anything missing here can still be found out there.

## What is new

- added desert oases (Gen1)
- added desert dynamic dunes
- improved ocean ice
- overhauled bulk strata mountain
- overhauled valley mountain
- improved mountain land mask to erode more natural
- adjusted mountain implementation
- updated all notes to worldmachine 4031

## Questions about this world

### What is Almorterra?

Almorterra is a hand-made survival world of 4,096 × 4,096 blocks, made with WorldPainter, World Machine, Gaea, Axiom and WorldEdit, built for Minecraft Java 1.18.1. You download the world folder and play it like any other save, in singleplayer or on your own server.

### How big is Almorterra?

4,096 × 4,096 blocks, so about 17 million blocks of surface. Walking from one edge to the other takes roughly 16 minutes at normal walking speed. The terrain runs from Y -64 to Y 320.

Outside that area the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so you never hit a wall, you just leave the built part behind.

### Which Minecraft version does Almorterra need?

Almorterra is built for Minecraft Java **1.18.1**. Newer releases normally open it fine. Opening it in an *older* release is not supported: blocks and structures added after that version cannot load, and the world can be damaged by the attempt.

Bedrock players need a converted copy. See [the Bedrock notes in the FAQ](https://mcmeddon.com/faq#install-bedrock).

### Which biomes are in Almorterra?

20 in total. The land is mostly Plains (41.7%), Windswept Hills (22.7%), Snowy Plains (11.2%) and Desert (9.4%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map.

Water covers 59.5% of the map, and land 40.5%.

The [full breakdown](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20220424-almorterra#biome-composition) is further up this page, with every biome and its share.

### Which structures are in Almorterra?

4 of the 19 structure types the scan checks are confirmed present: surface (0/7), underground (4/6), ocean (0/4), portal structures (0/1) and settlements (0/1).

Not confirmed: Desert pyramids (not checked), Igloos (not checked), Jungle pyramids (not checked), Pillager outposts (not checked), Swamp huts (not checked) and Trail ruins (not checked). "Searched, not found" means the scan looked and came up empty; "not checked" means it has not been looked for yet.

[The structure list](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20220424-almorterra#structure-coverage) above names every one of them.

### Is Almorterra ready to play in survival?

Yes. A scan of the world file confirms loot tables, structures, animals and ores, so the survival loop runs from the first night: chests hold the game's real loot tables, mobs spawn as they do anywhere else, and you can mine, farm and build without adding anything. It plays in vanilla Minecraft, with no mods, no datapacks and no creative mode.

The [world contents report](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20220424-almorterra#world-contents) at the bottom of this page holds the item-by-item detail.

### Where do I download Almorterra?

From the [download link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/almorterra-4-4k-65754674) on Patreon, also on the button at the top of this page.

Also available: the [source files](https://www.patreon.com/posts/source-files-2-9-65754594) on Patreon and the [PlanetMinecraft project page](https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/almorterra/), which carries the release notes and the known issues for this particular build.

### What is new in Almorterra?

Every world is built on the one before it, and Almorterra brought 8 logged changes into the line: new terrain, new assets and fixes to the generators that made it.

From its list:

- added desert oases (Gen1)
- added desert dynamic dunes
- improved ocean ice

The [full list](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20220424-almorterra#world-changelog) is on this page. These are the world's own additions, not patches released after it, so an older download is not missing them.

### Can I look at Almorterra before downloading it?

Yes. [Open it in the 3D explorer](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20220424-almorterra/explore) and fly the real terrain in your browser, with the biomes, the caves and the marked structures. Nothing to install.

General questions about downloading and installing: https://mcmeddon.com/faq.md

## Downloads

- [Download world (Patreon)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/almorterra-4-4k-65754674)
- [Download source files (Patreon)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/source-files-2-9-65754594)

## Elsewhere

- [Official PlanetMinecraft Post](https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/almorterra/)

## Rights

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, with commercial servers and media
allowed by exception.

Allowed: play it, stream it, put it in videos; run it on your server, commercial or not;
share videos, images, renders and art, commercial or not; remix and redistribute, meaning
build on top and share with friends and your community.

Not allowed: sharing the map as-is, reselling it or selling it on the Marketplace,
bundling worlds into modpacks, claiming it as your own, or skipping the attribution.

Credit like this: `World by McMeddon, "Almorterra"`, with a link back to
https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20220424-almorterra wherever the format allows one.

## On this site

- [World overview](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20220424-almorterra)
- [3D map viewer](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20220424-almorterra/explore)